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Ross, Patricia Ann

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Patricia Ann Ross was born November 16, 1943 and arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada as an infant with her parents and older brothers in 1944. She was raised in the Huntridge area, where she and her brothers attended John S. Park Elementary School and Las Vegas High School. Ross was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from her childhood. She married her high school sweetheart, and became a young mother to two children. After Ross married her second husband, Thomas, the couple built a house west of Jones Boulevard and she gave birth to her third son. Ross returned to school to earn her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and taught at C. H. Decker Elementary School for twenty years.